This week’s recommended books cast their nets wide, from the shores of a Scottish loch to the hills of southern India to the story of a peripatetic childhood in Europe and East Africa. They look back in time, too: George Saunders revisits classics of Russian literature; Robert Jones Jr. imagines a love story on a Mississippi plantation before the Civil War; and the father-son team of Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick write about Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1960 arrest in Georgia, which played a surprising role in that year’s presidential elections. Other books we like include James Comey’s reckoning with honesty and accountability in politics, Rich Cohen’s look at a children’s hockey league in Connecticut, a bad-seed parenting thriller and a classic Surrealist novel, reissued.
New York Times: 10 new books we recommend this week
A custmers selects books at a bookstore in Kuwait City on Jan. 23, 2021.
